Map Marker Icons generator – create beautiful icons for your map

May 9, 2020May 9, 2020 by Alfiya Tarasenkoin API, Front End, Solutions

Now you can create amazing custom map marker icons for your map with a few clicks with our new Marker Icons API. We combined the most popular map pin shapes with Material Design and Font Awesome icons set. Moreover, provide you easy to use and flexible API that lets you create icons of different sizes and colors. Is it Free? Yes, the API is Free to use for all our registered users, however, we set a limit of 250.000 requests/month for Free plans.

As all our APIs the Map Marker API works via HTTP Get requests. It returns a png-image of specified parameters as a result. Here is an example of the API URL:

https://api.geoapify.com/v1/icon/?icon=coffee&color=%23ff9999&size=large&type=awesome&apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY

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Map Marker icon types

The API gives you a choice of different icon forms: circle, Material Design Marker Pin, and Font Awesome Marker pin. Furthermore, you can add an icon to the Marker. Optionally you can draw an icon on a white circle or without. By default, all pin markers have a shadow. However, you can always remove it with a noShadow parameter.

Map Marker icon sizes

The API allows setting marker icon size: small, medium, large, x-large, or xx-large.

Marker Colors

No limits here! You can use any color that fits your project or you just like! Note, that for markers without white circle the color if the icon is automatically adjusted. In addition, you can change stroke color and shadow color. For example, make the shadow not dark, but light to make it look good on dark-color maps.

Icon sets

With Marker Icons API you can use Material Design and Font Awesome icon sets. All you need to do is just to specify the icon name in the URL.

Both icon sets have a permissive license and allowed to be used in commercial projects. The Material Design is available under Apache license version 2.0, the Font Awesome web font – under SIL OFL 1.1 license.

Marker icon text

Text icon content is an alternative to icon content. You can add a custom text, define the text size, add or remove the white circle.

Register and generate Map Marker Icons for Free

Get an API key and generate custom icons for your projects. Learn more about Geoapify APIs.

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Small ones or big… Shaped, round or floating ones… Choose colors, icons, and sizes. Everything is possible and with a graphical interface!

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Add a few places to a map and navigate them with buttons. Add tags to places and allow filtering places by tags.

Easy to share and integrate into a website

You can integrate Mapifator maps with copy&paste only. The maps are cloud-hosted, just provide a link to share them.

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Location intelligence components that show you the answer

Statistics

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Example of multi-stop delivery optimization

Multi-stop order delivery optimization example

There are two main ways Geoapify Platform can help you with multi-stop route optimization

1Our Routing API supports automatic re-arrangement of intermediate stops to optimize total time or distance.

2A more advanced option involves using our Matrix API to calculate driving times and distances between all possible stops. The resulting table can be used as input for a customized route optimization strategy.

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